Speaker – Baltic Carbon Forum

Conference Committee:

⦁ Alla Shogenova, Estonia
⦁ Sveinung Hagen, Norway
⦁ Todd Flach, Norway
⦁ Peter Molander, Finland, treasurer
⦁ Bruno Gerrits, (Co-chair) Belgium
⦁ Mayur Pal, (Chair) Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Lithuania,
⦁ Christian Lundström, operations inspector, Finland
⦁ Viltė Karaliūtė (secretary), Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Lithuania

Our Expert Speaker

Almas Gier

Andreas Busch

Shantanu Agarwal

Martin

Juozas Tunaitis

Some Of Our Expert Speakers

Eva Halland (CCUS, Norway)

Eva Halland (CCUS Norway) Deputy Head of Climit (Norwegian R&D program for CCS) and adviser to the World Bank, politicians and the ministry in CO2 storage and business models.

Johan Vetlesen (Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, Norway)

Johan Vetlesen, Deputy General at Ministry of Petroleum and Energy.

Justinas Jazbutis (KN, Lithuania)

Involved in floating LNG regasification project developments in EU, Latin America, SE Asia. Lately major focus on Carbon Capture Storage initiatives. Taking a role of PM for CCS value chain feasibility study performed by KN and international partners.

Oleg Linkevich (Latvenergo, Latvia)

Head of R&D of the Latvian energy company Latvenergo AS. Scientific activity & research has carried out for more than 17 years, specializing in modeling the operation of power plants and microgrids, developing optimization models and algorithms.

Sina R. Gomari (Teesside University, UK)

Senior Lecturer in Energy and Environmental Engineering at Teesside University UK. Course Leader for MSc Petroleum Engineering Advanced Practice Project Coordinator.

Tore Lunde (Höegh LNG, Norway)

Senior Advisor involved in the companies floating terminal (FSRU) projects, small and medium size LNG projects and for the last 2 years, Energy transition projects.

Kazbulat Shogenov (TallTech, Estonia)

Dr Shogenov is a Researcher at the Department of Geology at Tallinn University of Technology (Tall Tech) and founder and CEO of the SHOGenergy consulting company.

Ervinas Škikūnas (Civitta, Lithuania)

Associate partner in management consultancy Civitta. CIVITTA is a leading independent management consultancy in Central and Eastern Europe.

Martin Neumaier (Ariane LogiX, Norway)

Dr. Martin Neumaier is co-founder of ArianeLogiX, a start-up company providing software and services in the domain of probabilistic evaluation and decision making for carbon storage as well as oil & gas assets.

Andreas Busch (HWK, United Kingdom)

Prof. Andreas Busch leads the GeoEnergy research group at Heriot-Watt University since joining in 2016. Prior to moving to Edinburgh, he worked in R&D at Shell Global Solutions in Rijswijk, the Netherlands.

Shantanu Agarwal (Susteon, United States of America)

Shantanu is the Co-Founder & President of Susteon, a decarbonization technology developer, commercializing CO2 capture and utilization technologies based in North Carolina.

Juozas Tunaitis (Achema, Lithuania)

Mr. Juozas Tunaitis has several years of management and innovation experience. He is currently Technical Director of SC “Achema”, as position he has held since 2005. Prior to that he held position of Director of Innovation Department at JSC “Achema Group”.

Evita Gosa (SCHWENK Latvija)

Evita is the Environmental and Legal Director and Management Board Member of SCHWENK Latvija SIA, and the Board Member of AB “Akmenes cementas” (Lithuania).

Parvin Ahmadi (PhD Researcher, UK)

Parvin Ahmadi is a Reservoir Engineer with 18 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. PhD candidate in Teesside University UK since March 2021 working on CO2 sequestration.

Søren Reinhold Poulsen (Ineos, Denmark)

Søren Reinhold Poulsen is the Head of DK Assets in INEOS Energy Denmark and takes up the role as Project Director for the Solsort, Hejre and Greensand development projects.

Farid Karimi (Novia University of Applied Sciences, Finland)

Farid Karimi is an Environmental Social Scientist. He received PhD in Environmental Social Science from the University of Helsinki, Finland. His research interests mostly lie in the field of social sciences of sustainable energy systems.

Prof. Stanislaw Nagy (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)

Stanislaw Nagy is a professor of thermodynamics and natural gas engineering at Drilling, Oil and Gas Faculty at the AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland.

Dr. Adam Wójcicki (PGI-NRI, Poland)

Adam Wójcicki, Ph.D., Eng., geophysicist working at PGI-NRI, has been involved in CCS activities supported by the EU FP6 since 2004 (CASTOR, EU GeoCapacity, CO2NetEast).

Svante Söderholm (SEA, Sweden)

Svante Söderholm is senior advisor at the Swedish Energy Agency. The main tasks during 2021 have been government missions to design a support scheme for bio-CCS.

Dr. Alla Shogenova (TalTech, Estonia)

Dr. Alla Shogenova is a senior researcher and a leader of CO2 storage group at Department of Geology, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) and a Director for Research in SHOGenergy NGO.

Dariusz Wojakowski (Uni. of Science and Technology, Poland)

Dariusz Wojakowski is a professor of sociology at the Faculty of Humanities, AGH - University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland.

Professor Oluf Langhelle (Univ. of Stavanger, Norway)

Professor Oluf Langhelle is Professor in political science at University of Stavanger, Department of Media and Social Sciences, Norway.

Eva Halland (CCUS, Norway)

Eva Halland (CCUS Norway) Deputy Head of Climit (Norwegian R&D program for CCS) and adviser to the World Bank, politicians and the ministry in CO2 storage and business models.